B.P.R.D. (2002), Volume 8

July 1, 2008
If you love the movie The Thing, youll find the latest B.P.R.D. arc familiarly satisfying. Almost entirely confined within the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Developments immense Colorado mountain facility, it has the series heroic field team fighting one monster that escapes from its supposedly impregnable steel crate and then, after it crashes out into the surrounding wilderness, another that may be team leader Benjamin Daimio in shifted shape. Comic relief comes from usually ectoplasmic team member Johann Kraus attempts to get back to base to help out after a night out carousing in his new Incredible Hulklike body. Guy Davis art matches the moviesin decorative mayhem.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)